Alfred Hitchcock and Ten Wrong Men

Alfred Hitchcock was big on the plot device of mistaken identity in both his crime and spy thrillers. The Wrong Man itself is a prime example of the police arresting or pursuing the wrong man (and based on true events) but the theme appeared often in his movies before making that one, as early as silent film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927). He has also twisted this by having the narrative follow the right man as in Shadow of a Doubt (1943) while also revealing that a wrong man is being followed and blamed for his crimes and in To Catch a Thief (1955) where the wrong man actually was formerly a criminal and the right 'man' was actually a woman. Finally, there was also Dial M for Murder (1954) (not included) which saw a woman blamed for a male character's actions.

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